Vehicle attachment.



No. 875,766 PATENTED JAN, '7, 1908.

P. R. ALLEN. VEHICLE ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED MAY15,1907.

WITNESSES body, and having two downwardly extend provide means for facilitating the removal of unoved from the vehicle, and Figs. 3, 4, 5, and

tion of the vehicle to which it is applied.

FRANK R. ALLEN, OF PASSAIC, NEW JiCl-ISEY.

VEHIC LE ATTACIiME NT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 7, 1908.

Application filed May 15.1907. Serial No. 373336.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK it. ALLEN,.11 citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Passaic, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Vehicle Altaehmcnts, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in. vehicle attaclnnents.

In the usual form of automobile vehicles, great difficulty is experienced in examining and repairing the machinery beneath the body, and the object of my invention is to the vehicle body, to disclose the engine or machinery, and when desired for the substitution of one body for another.

\Vhilc l. have shown my device applied to an. autmnobile vehicle, it may be used with any desired form of vehicle, and with my device one set of running gear may be easily and quickly applied to different bodies;

My device is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a view of my device applied to a vehicle. Fig. 2 is a view of my device re- 6 are optional forms of the device. a view of the locking device.

Similar letters refcrto similar'parts throughout the several views.

Onthe top on each side of the running gear or chassis of a vehicle, are longitudinal strips (1- (tupon each of which may be secured a strip or track a. On the bottom of the vehicle body are longitudinal strips 0, secured at each side and each lying along the strip a on the chassis, when the body is in position. On each of the longitudinal strips a secured to the under side of the body I) at each side I provide a track engaging member. This track engaging member I refer to form with two upwardly cxtendin eaves d d to be secured to the strip. on t 1e under side of the Fig. 7 is ing leaves f f engaging each side of the track a, as shown in Fig. '2, as in this form of my device greater rigidity is obtained. I find, however; that the forms of track engaging device shown in Figs. 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 may also be used to advantage, the form of my device" being varied to conform to the construe-- In Fig. 3, I have shown two upwardly exending leaves e e, to engage the strip 0 on the under side of the body I), and having one downwardly extending edge section or lcaff to engage the track (1.

in Fig. l, .l have shown my device with the upwardly extending loaves omitted. and hav-- ing two downwardly extending edge sections to over-lap the track (1.. device may be used advantagcously where the construction of the body is such, that the track engaging member may be attached to the body by screws or bolts passed through the track engaging member into the vehicle body. Where the structure of the vehicle is such that the dowmwn'dly extending leaves cannot conveniently over-lap both edges of the track, l omit one of the downwardly extending leaves, as shown. in Fig. 5.

in Fig. 6 l have shown my device with one upwardly extending leaf (Z, and. an inwardly extending central section It to be secured to the vehicle body by means of screws or bolts, and one downwardly exton'ding edge section fto over-lap the track member (1.

It will thus be apparent. that by means of my device, the body member may be moved upon the running gear to allow access to the engine or machinery on the running gear beneath the body, or the body member may be removed from the running gear, and another body substituted without diiliculty. 1: also provide a locking means between the body and running gear, so that the l)()( y may not be acdidentally displaced. This locking means I prefer to form of a bar It hinged to the running gear (1 and normally fitting'upon the screw bolt t in the body member I), and a screw nut upon the bolt i to hold the same against accidental displacement.

Having thus described my invention, what I'claim is,

1. In combination with a vehicle body, and the running gear thereof, stri secured to the underside of Said body, trac s secured to the runninggear and being disposed in vertical alinement with said strips, and guiding members each having a horizontal portion between said strips and tracks and a downwardly and. inwardly extending part engaging the top side, and bottom faces of said tracks 2. In .conbination with a vehicle body, and.the running gear thereof, strips secured to said running gear, tracks secured to the top face of said strips and having one side projecting beyond the adjacent side of said strips, strips secured to the under face of the This form of my vehicle body and being disposed in vertical alinement with said strips of the running gear and guiding members each rigidly secured to said strips of the body and having a portion engaging said side of the track.

-3. In combination with the vehicle body and running gear thereof, strips secured to said-body and running gear thereof in verti-' cal alinement with one another, tracks carried by said strips of the running gear, and guiding members each having a'horizontal part lying between said strips of the body and tracks, a pairof upwardly extending arts to embrace and be secured to the side laces of the strips of the body, and downwardly and inwardly extending parts to engage said tracks.

4. In conibination with a vehicle body, and the running gear thereof, strips secured to the finder side of said body, and to the running gear, tracks secured to the strips ofv face of said strips of the running gear, and

one piece guiding members eachhaving a horizontal portion between said strips of the body and tracks, and having a vertical side member which extends downwardly and in- Wardly and which incloses said projecting portion of the tracks.

In testimony whereof, I, FRANK R. ALL N, have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this thirteenth day of May, 1907.

FRANK R. ALLEN.

Witnesses -LEWIS A. ALLEN, M. D. COLLARD. 

